Beth Revis Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
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So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.
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I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
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Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!
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Failure makes the success worth it.
